Mouse touchpad (was Re: Cannot encrypt archive?)

[Owen Thomas]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 11:48, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 01:39, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In Xubuntu, if you go into Settings -> Mouse and touchpad, there is a
> > setting to disable the touchpad.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure you can find one for Ubuntu (Google usually helps).
> >
> > Alternatively, you can switch to Xubuntu (XFCE4 wm) - I find it much
> > more flexible as well and thin and fast.  Haven't used straight Ubuntu
> > since the Unity interface came out, and I don't care for GNOME3
> > either.  But that's just me (and most other XFCE4 users, even on
> > Mint).
>
> 100% agreed to both.
>

What I'm trying to hint at here is just a keystroke. One shouldn't have to
plow one's way through a set of menu options while one is entering some
text to disable one's touchpad, only to need to plow through the same set
of menus so to re-enable it when one wants to use the touchpad.

Perhaps this can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut (can it? - it looks
like I might have to be arsed to find out) and that might fix my problems -
at least until I need to learn how to do it all over again sometime next
decade. However, it would be better for there to be a keyboard shortcut
configured "out of the box" because I think most people (yes, thankfully
not all people) have lives that are centred on activities other than
configuring their computer to respond to keyboard shortcuts, and so most
new users would really appreciate not having to learn about how to
configure their touchpad disablement feature to respond to a keyboard
shortcut; most people (not all, thankfully) want their operating system to
enable their lives, they do not want their operating system to become the
focus of their lives .

I am not mistaken am I?
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